. The poets' Lincoln : tributes in verse to the martyred President. HERt m ff Wftf BUT » ** PO THIS .^.,iC,-pA ^ CANNOT^fTHE BRAVEL- CONSECW the *orl SAY HEREI RESTING I :T TJltTTHATwE SHOULD>ROPER_THA> £DlCATE Wt. ; SE *E C*2T HALLO- ho s\--- . -? : - OWER TO = E DEDICATED «^T THUST„ER FOR US TO \E. THAT ^ !VETHE UST ™^ MEASUREeHTLYHERESoLv£.THAT THESE>/MN THAT VMS » M THE EARTH -. STATUE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN On the State Capitol Grounds at Lincoln, Nebraska. Unveiled September 2, 1912. Daniel Chester French, sculptor THE POETS LINCOLN JOHN TOWNSEND TROWBRIDGE, born S
. The poets' Lincoln : tributes in verse to the martyred President. HERt m ff Wftf BUT » ** PO THIS .^.,iC,-pA ^ CANNOT^fTHE BRAVEL- CONSECW the *orl SAY HEREI RESTING I :T TJltTTHATwE SHOULD>ROPER_THA> £DlCATE Wt. ; SE *E C*2T HALLO- ho s\--- . -? : - OWER TO = E DEDICATED «^T THUST„ER FOR US TO \E. THAT ^ !VETHE UST ™^ MEASUREeHTLYHERESoLv£.THAT THESE>/MN THAT VMS » M THE EARTH -. STATUE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN On the State Capitol Grounds at Lincoln, Nebraska. Unveiled September 2, 1912. Daniel Chester French, sculptor THE POETS LINCOLN JOHN TOWNSEND TROWBRIDGE, born Sep-tember 18, 1827, in Ogden, New York. He livedthe ordinary life of a country boy, going to schoolsix months in the year till he was fourteen, after whichhe had to work on the farm in summer. His books hadmore interest to him than his work, and he managedto learn more out of school than in it. At sixteen hewrote articles in verse and prose for magazines andjournals. He was a contributor to the Atlantic the great rebellion, he wrote several storiesof the war: The Drummer Boy, 1863, and The ThreeScouts, 1865. On the return of peace he spent somefour months in the principal southern States, for thepurpose of gaining accurate views of the condition ofsociety there after the war. He published the resultof these observations June, 1866, in a volume entitled,The South. A collected edition of
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